lan domain not resolved

[joxborrow]

I have set up a network with a router and an access point based on gargoyle. Everything is working fine except for only IP addresses can be used to access resources on the lan. I have set the domain on both the router and the access point to "lan.net" in hopes that (hostname).lan.net would resolve. This is not working though. Any idea what settings I might have wrong? Thanks for any help!

[ispyisail]

More information required

Are you using 2 DHCP servers?

How any subnets have you got?

As a rule in basic networks you can only use hostname inside the subnet.

[Lantis]

And another question, did the default setting (hostname.lan) work BEFORE you changed it to lan.net?

[joxborrow]

I have the router set to use "Default Servers specified by ISP". I have the access point set to "Custom DNS Sever", pointing to my router (191.168.1.1).

I am not sure how many subnets I have. Is there somewhere you might be able to point me to to answer that question?

I did not test the hostname.lan. My network (using just a router) always worked with lan.net and I switched it as part of my initial setup. Should I try switching it back?

Thanks again for the help I am relatively new to this.

[Lantis]

So this is a "dumb AP" with connection mode set to "disabled"?
And you also have the Gargoyle DHCP server disabled?

[ispyisail]

screenshots would help heaps

[joxborrow]

I have uploaded some screen shots to the following link. Please let me know if there are any other screen shots that would be helpful. Thx
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ppafpdgqq3i6 ... 8Qt3a?dl=0

I don't know if this is helpful but the router and the access point names are resolved. It is just other things like the NAS, printer, etc. whose names are not resolved.

[Lantis]

You definitely only want a single DHCP server (on the router).
I don't know if that's the only thing that is causing you an issue though.

[ispyisail]

I don't know how far you want to go with this but the next steep is we need a sketch of you network layout.

[RomanHK]

I would uncheck the "Enforce DHCP assignments" function for sure.

EDIT: If you use your own NAS and printer (Qnap, Synology, ...) it will be best to assign them a static assignment to a DHCP server. Then you can be sure that the name will be resolved even after restarting the router (as in the case of "ap1").